'M>'2 OEOMHHCAL SlIRVKY OK CANAHA. 



(Miuoun d- Porter.) Rocky Mouiilaiiis, Soiuh JvooUmic i'atis, (J, 500 

 loot altitutio, VMh parallel ; Midiell Ci-ook. Ci-ow Nest Pass, western 

 suinmil of Norlli Kooiaiiie Pasy, and head watei's of High-wood 

 Eiver, lloeky Mountains; also noai-Tan^'abunkat Lake, B.C. {Dawson.) 

 Alpine prairies of the Roeky Mountains, Lat. 52'^-5(»°. {Drummond.) 

 Cold damp meadows near MeLeod's Lake, Lat. 55°, B.C. ; also on 

 (he slopes of the Koeky Mountains, Kicking Horse Pass. (Mncoun.) 

 Bart let t liay. Alaska. {Jlcchan.) Sitka and Ounalashka. {liotlir. 

 AUxsk.) Eastern specimens are much more hairy than those from the 

 Rock}' Mountains. The latter seem to represent the V. nutans of 

 Bongard. 



(1675.) V. serpyllifolia, Linn. 



Open grassy grounds, roadsides, pastures, and boi-ders of ditches ; 

 a})pearing generally like an introduced plant, hut extending in such 

 situations from the Atlantic to the Pacific, and far to the north passing 

 the Arctic Circle. On the west coast it passes north to the Aleutian 

 Islands oti' the coast of Alaska. 



(1G70.) V. peregrina, Linn. Neck-weed. 



Common throughout the whole of Canada along the margins of rivers 

 and wet or muddy places in cultivated fields, meadows or pastures. In 

 the prairie region it is frequent on exsiccated ground, and brook sides. 

 On the margins of the great rivers it passes far to the north and 

 almost reaches the Arctic Sea on the Mackenzie. 



(1677.) V. arvensis, Linn. Corn Speedwell. 



Extensively naturalized in cultivated and waste ground. On the 

 grass}' slopes of Cape Forteau, at Yarmouth, and on Cape Blomidon, 

 at the "Look-out," N.S. (Macoun.) St. Andrews, N.B. (Vroom.) 

 Chamcook Mountain, N.B. {Hay.) Portage, King's Co., and Hills- 

 borough, N.B. (Brittain.) Vicinity of Ottawa. (Fletcher Fl. Ott.) 

 Ramsay, Carleton Co., Out. {Rev. J. K.McMorim.) Miriwin's Woods, 

 near Prescott, Ont., rare. {Billings.) Vicinity of Belleville at the 

 gravel pit, and near the paper mill ; also at Pine Grove, Bj"ighton, 

 and near the village of Castleton, Northumberland Co. ; also around 

 Owen Sound on waste places. {Macoun.) Kingston and Port Robin- 

 son, Out. {Maclagan.) Vicinity of Hamilton, Ont. {Buchan.) 

 Neighborhood of London, Ont. {Burgess.) Vicinity of Toronto. 

 {Fowler.) 



(1678.) V. agrestis, Linn. 



Naturalized in Nova Scotia and New Brunswick. "Windsor, N.S. 

 {Sow.) Introduced into a garden a few years ago at RichibuctOj N.B., 



